I totally get that but remember, it's only boring to you because you've already gone over it in your head a million billion times. It's brand new to the reader!

Yes I would like that a lot 🥺❤️

i'm just so monstrously depressed right now. there is literally nothing i feel like doing at all. i can't enjoy free time i have because there is nothing i want to do, no books i want to read, no movies i want to watch, no games i want to play, nothing

i wanna be able to play games with my friends but none of it is quite scratching the itch of what I want and i end up just losing focus and feeling sad and upset because i'm not having fun but it feels like i *should* be having fun because everyone else is

this problem isn't exclusive to books but I don't think it's as pervasive in other mediums

"if a reader doesn't like something or doesn't understand something then it's a failure of the writer" actually it might be because the reader skim-read or straight up skipped a lot of important parts of the story, or decided before starting what the story should be and got mad when it wasn't that.

--So just remember, those are not the people you're writing for sdklsdklfjsdjl

From a reader perspective, I think a lot of readers are generally ok with some slow spots in a story as long as they're serving a purpose!

(it is also important to remember that a lot of readers are legitimately bad at reading, and are often WAY too impatient with stories)

I've personally found it much more useful to adopt the mindset that every scene must have a *purpose*. Sometimes, that purpose is to move the plot forward. Sometimes it's to establish important traits in certain characters. Sometimes it's to set up a plot point down the line.

This is something I've struggled a lot with too and I think part of this comes from some really common (but wrong) writing advice telling us we need to have action and conflict on every page. It's super common advice to hear "every single scene should move the plot forward."

Same, I just view winter driving as the price i have to pay for the rest of winter skfjskfjek

as someone who absolutely hates wastefulness this shit drove me up the wall SDLKFSDKF

It sucks spending time around my family and realizing just how little anything about me matters. They don't care. They're more invested in the lives of their friends' kids than they are in my life. I'm never ever going to be good enough and it makes me want to give up